Patient-Specific Stented Coronary Bifurcations: Numerical Analisys of Near-Wall Quantities and the Bulk Flow

C. CHIASTRA; S. MORLACCHI; D. GALLO; U. MORBIDUCCI; R. CARDENES; I. LARRABIDE; A. F. FRANGI; G. DUBINI; F. MIGLIAVACCA

Conferencia; ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference; 2013

Currently, the majority of the numerical studies consider idealized geometries, lacking of patient-specificity. The aim of the present work is to investigate the fluid dynamics in patient-specific stented coronary artery models which replicate the complete clinical procedure of stenting implantation, with particular emphasis on how local hemodynamic structures might influence flow-mediated processes leading to restenosis.